{"id":629350,"date":"2026-03-18T03:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/629350\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:37:16","slug":"who-makes-the-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/629350\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Makes The Opening Day Roster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101espn.com\/category\/st-louis-cardinals\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101espn.com\/category\/videos\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                      By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101espn.com\/author\/producer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">101 ESPN<\/a> | March 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>  Share:<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.101espn.com\/videos\/who-makes-the-opening-day-roster-redbird-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Who Makes The Opening Day Roster? | Redbird Report&amp;url=https:\/\/www.101espn.com\/videos\/who-makes-the-opening-day-roster-redbird-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101espn.com\/videos\/who-makes-the-opening-day-roster-redbird-report\/mailto:?subject=Who Makes The Opening Day Roster?\" redbird=\"\" report=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share via e-mail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><br \/>\n  <a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"#\" id=\"share-link\" data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/www.101espn.com\/videos\/who-makes-the-opening-day-roster-redbird-report\/\" data-bs-toggle=\"tooltip\" data-placement=\"right\" data-trigger=\"click\" title=\"Link Copied to Clipboard\"><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re just over a week from Opening Day, and BK &amp; T-Bone are back with their roster projections. Will Thomas Saggese make the roster or start in Triple-A? Will the Cardinals open with Fitts in the rotation? Who locks down bullpen spots? Could JJ Wetherholt hit leadoff? Plus, if the Cardinals win 85 games this season, it\u2019ll be because\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23STLCards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#STLCards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23101ESPN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#101ESPN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23RedbirdReport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RedbirdReport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MLB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23OpeningDay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#OpeningDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Baseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Baseball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals | Videos By 101 ESPN | March 17, 2026 Share: We\u2019re just over a week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,673,67,4311,4310,52367],"class_list":{"0":"post-629350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouiscardinals","15":"tag-youtube-feed"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116248094232198938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}